Five prisoners sought by US in prisoner swap with Iran arrive in Qatar

Five prisoners sought by US in prisoner swap with Iran arrive in Qatar

A woman walks past an anti-US mural painted on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran (Vahid Salemi/AP/PA)

Five prisoners sought by the US in a prisoner swap with Iran including British-American-Iranian Morad Tahbaz have landed in Qatar, officials said.

It is part of a deal that saw nearly six billion dollars (£4.85 billion) in Iranian assets unfrozen.

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